Mix-and-match from
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Subgenre Sampler
Hiroshima Mon Amour (1959)- Dir. Alain Resnais
Feat. Emmanuelle Riva, Eiji Okada - Romance between a French actress and a Japanese architect rekindles their traumatic wartime experiences. The twin threads of despair and sensual love…
Hole in the Head, A (1959)- Dir. Frank Capra
Feat. Frank Sinatra, Edward G. Robinson, Eleanor Parker… - One of dir. Capra's (IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE) final efforts stays true to the redemptive themes of his classic works. Sinatra runs a threadbare…
Hound of the Baskervilles, The (1959)- Dir. Terence Fisher
Feat. Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee, Andre Morell… - Quite possibly the best Sherlock Holmes adaptation, with Cushing in the lead, investigating the horrors of the Baskerville killings. The 'Hammer'…
Human Condition, The (No Greater Love, Road to Eternity, A Soldier's Prayer) (1959-1961)
- Dir. Masaki Kobayashi
Feat. Tatsuya Nakadai, Michiyo Aratana - An epic Japanese film trilogy following the life of a well–intentioned yet naïve pacifist and socialist as he tries to survive in the…
I'm All Right Jack (1959)- Dir. John Boulting
Feat. Ian Carmichael, Peter Sellers, Terry-Thomas… - Brilliant satire of labour and class relations, makes a glorious mockery of unions and management alike as upperclass twit Ian Carmichael joins the…
Imitation of Life (1959)
- Dir. Douglas Sirk
Feat. Lana Turner, John Gavin, Sandra Dee… - Douglas Sirk's famed melodrama of American ambition and racism is justly renowned for the surprisingly bitter commentary buried within its involving…
It Happened to Jane (1959)- Dir. Richard Quine
Feat. Doris Day, Jack Lemmon, Ernie Kovacs - Ordinary folk take on corporate bullying in this under–rated rom–com starring Doris Day as a widowed small–business woman and…
Jazz On a Summer's Day (1959)- Dir. Bert Stern
- The definitive jazz concert film, shot at the Newport Festival in 1958 captures the sights and sounds and buzz of another time and place as well as…
Journey to the Centre of the Earth (1959)- Dir. Henry Levin
Feat. James Mason, Pat Boone - James Mason and Pat Boone head an intrepid earth–burrowing expedition in good, old fashioned adventure based on Jules Verne's novel.
Killer Shrews, The (1959)- Dir. Ray Kellogg
Feat. James Best, Ken Curtis - Low–budget B–movie set on an isolated island where a small group of people are terrorized by giant voracious shrews in the midst of a…
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